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A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE HOME CIRCLE
VOLUME I.
RICHMOND, KENTUCKY, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1913.
N UMBER 10.
CAREERS OF THE
CABINET MEMBERS
Something About the Ten rMen
Selected as President Wil
son's Advisers.
MOST OF THEM WELL KKOWIJ
Bryan of Course Heads the List Mc
Reynoids Experienced In Enforc
ing Anti-Trust Laws McAdoo
Noted Builder of Railway
V, Tunnels.
Washington. President Wilson ou
Wednesday sent to the Benate the
names of the following as the jmem
twtrs of t his cabinet:
Secretary of State William,. Jen
nings Bryan of Nebraska.
Secretary, of the Treasury William
G. McAdoo of New York.
Secretary of War Llndley M. Gar
rison of New Jersey. ;
Attorney GeneralJames C. McRey
noids -of Tennessee..
Pastmaster General Albert Burle
son of Texas.
Secretary of the Navy Josephus
Daniels of North Carolina.
Secretary of the - Interior Franklin
K. Lane of California.
Secretary of Agriculture David A.
Houston of Missouri.
Secretary of Commerce William
C. Redfield of New York.
' Secretary of Labor William B. Wil
son of Pennsylvania. -
"With one or two ceptjons, these
men hare attained considerable na
tional fame, and all of them are ad
mittedly able. '
.-' Mr. Bryan's Career.
William J. Bryan has been so much
In the public eye for a good .many
.years that , a sketch of his career
seems almost superfluous, Born . in
Salem, 111., la 1860; he was 'graduated
with highest Vonors from Illinois col
lege at Jacksonville In 1881 and re-
WILLIAM J. BRYAN,
Secretary of State.
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ceived his master's degree in 1884.
In 1883 he was given the' degreo of
liL. B. by Union College f Law, Chi
cago. After practicing law in Jack
sonville and Lincoln, Neb., he erved
as a member of ;ther"52nd and "&3rd
congresses. Having- written tha 'sil
yer pbink" for the Democratic na
tional convention of 1896 and . made
sensational, speech, ;he was nomi
nated for president, but was defeated
by"William . -McKinley. Nominated
again in 1900, he was again beaten by
SIcKinley, and then established the
Commoner and made a tour of the
world. Nominated a third time . in
1808, he was defeated by W. H. TafL
,Mr. Bryan .married Mary Elizabeth
Balrd in 1884. He has done much lac
tnring and written several, books.
McAdoo the Tunnel Builder. . .
' William Glbba . McAdoo though a
lawyer by-, profession, ' la known to
tnoet .people as the builder of the
reat system of railway tunnels of
Wew York city. He was born near
Marietta," Ga., in 1863 and : was , edu
cated at the University of Tennessee.
5n 1885 he was admitted to the ban
and the aame. year he married Sarah
Houston Fleming of Chattanooga. He
Entered the practice of law ; in New
,Tork in 1832, and since 1901 has been
Interested chiefly in. tunnel const ruc
tion there. He is president of . the
Hudson -& Manhattan Railroad com
pany. ; "-j
Llndley M. Garrison.
The selection of Llndley M. Garri-on,"Tlce-chancellor
of New Jersey,, to
,-,ie secretary of war Is in - line with
JPresident -Wilson's idea that the hold
er of that posltton should ba. a raaa
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of unusual executive ability. H is a
close friend of Mr. Wilson. Mr. Garri
son was born in Camden, N. J., No
vember 28. 1864. He is a son of Rev.
Joseph P. Garrison, an Episcopal
clergyman.' He is a brother of Justice
Charles G. Garrison of the New Jersey
supreme court.- He was appointed to
the chancery court in June, 1904, and
reappointed by Chancellor Mahlon Pit
ney, now a justice of the .United
States Supreme court, in 1911 for a
term of seven . years. .Vv - '
' James C. McReynoids.
In picking James Clark McReynoids
for the position of attorney general
Mr. Wilson selected a man who has
had a lot of experience as a "trust
buster." He is a native of Elkton, Ky.,
where he was born in 1S62, and a grad
uate of Vanderbilt university and the
law school of the University of Vir
ginia. From 1903 to 1907 he was as
sistant attorney general of the United
States. He then returned to private
practice, bat has been "retained as
special assistant to the attorney gen
eral in matters relating to the en
forcement of the anti-trust laws. Mr.
McReynoids is unmarried.
- Albert 8. ' Burleson.
-Albert Sidney Burleson already has
served seven consecutive . .terms . as
congressman from the Tenth' district
of Texaa and was re-elected to the
Sixty-third congress, r He was born .in
San Marcos, Tex., in. 1863, was edu
cated at the Agricultural and Me
chanical College of Texas, Baylor uni
versity and the University of Texas,
and was admitted to the bar in 1884.
He was assistant city attorney of Aus
tin for several years, before going to
congress. Mrs. Burleson was Miss
Adele Steiner of Austin. - .
Josephus Daniels.
Joeephus Daniels, secretary of the
navy, is the one newspaper man given
place in the cabinet. He has also
been active in politics and is the mem
ber of the Democratic national com
mittee for North Carolina. Mr. Dan
iels was born in 1862 at Washington.
N. C, and began . his newspaper; ca
reer at the age of eighteen aa editor
of thft. Wilson (N. 'C.) Advance, in
188Sf he became editor of the Raleigh
State Chronicle, which nine years later
he consolidated with the North Caro
linian and the News and Observer.
- - Franklin K. Lane. .
Franklin Knight' Lane has been a
member of the interstate- commerce
commission since 1905, and this expe
rience is Relieved to have fitted him
for the executive and, judicial tasks in
administering the public land laws of
the country. Born in Prince Edward
Island in 1864, he received his educa
tion in the University of California
and became a lawyer in San Francis
co. Prior to his designation to the
commission he was a Democratic po
litical leader in "California. He was
Democratic candidate for governor,
being defeated by a narrow margin.
Subsequently he was the Democratic
caucus candidate for United States
senator. v
David -F. Houston.
In David Franklin Houston, chan
cellor of Washington university, St.
Louis, Wilson has a secretary of ag
riculture who is faneSSSar with the pro
cesses of 'advancing scientific farming
and allied questions in this country.
Mr. Houston was president of the Tex
as Agricultural and Mechanical college
for a number of years, and has taught
in several other educational institu
tions. He was born in Monroe, N. C,
in 1866, was educated at South Caro
lina college and Harvard, and . re
ceived the degree of LL; D. from Tu
lane and the University of Wisconsin.
He married Miss Helen Beall of Aus
tin, Tex., in 1895.. V .
William C. Redfield.
' William Cox .Redfield has Just com
pleted his first term as a congressman,
but he has been prominent in the poli
tics of New s York for a goodVmany
years. In 1902 and J 90S he was1 com
missioner of publte t works for' the
Borough of Brooklyn. In priva'te ltfe
he is a manufacturer of ventilating
and heating apparatus and engines.
Mr. Redfield was born in 1858 in Ak
bany, N. Y., "was educated in the
schools of that city, and removed to
New York in ,1877 atid to Brooklyn lri
1883. :-; : ' 'r ' ' ,
' William B. Wilson.
Pennsylvania's representative in the
cabinet is William Bauchop Wilson of
Blossburg. named for secretary of la-;
bor. He was born. In Blantyre, Scot
land In 1862, and caine to this country
in 1870.' The -next year he began
working ia the'. Pennsylvania . coal
mines, and from early manhood he has
been actively interested in trade union
affairs. For eight years - he was inr
ternatlonal secretary-treasurer of the
United Mine Workers o: America. He
is now engaged In farming. Mr. Wil
son has been a member of the last
three congresses, representing the Fif:
teenth' district of his state. He li
married and has nine children.
;; Altercation. -
Sunday School Teacher "Who can
tell me what an altar. is?" Small Girl
"Please sir, -it's where they burn
insect's." I'Mlaflelrlda ledgej. - '.,
ON THEIR
il ,hK'M - ,f - mmSm- - if !"
This photograph shows the men of the Twenty-seven m infantry, at Fort Sheridan, leading equipment and sup
plies on the trains for their hurried trip to Texas, where they and thousands of other American soldiers are ready
for any emergency across the border. ' . -
32,000 TURKS TAKEN
GREEK SOLDIERS -CAPTURE "JA
' NINA AFTER TERRIFIC FIGHT.
Three Transports Carrying Servian
"Troops" Ate Sunk by the Ottoman '
Cruiser Hamidieh. ' ,
Athens, Greece, : March. . r,The
Turkish fortress of- Janina, key to
the possession of the' - province of.
Eplrus, with Its garrison of 32,000
men, surrendered to the Greek army
Thursday, . after a defense which
forms one of the most brilliant epi
sodes of the Balkan war. The sur
render was preceded by a fierce bom
bardment, lasting withoutce8satlou
for two days and two nights.
Not fewer; than 30,000 shells were
fired by the Greek guns during the
first day's cannonade. - Gradually the
Turkish batteries of B Irani, Manoliara,
Sakni and elsewhere were silenced.
By a feint the Greek commanders hd
the Turks to believe that their attack
would be made "from the right. As
soon as the attention of the defenders
had been distracted the Greeks hurled
large bodies of infantry against the
Turkish left The Ottoman troops, .ut
terly surprised, fell back In disorder.
The . batteries on the heights, of .Bl
zani, the mainstay of the defense, had
been unable to stand the pelting of
the shells and were reduced to silence
at eleven o'clock in the morning. The
Greeks pushed . their forward mo;ye
ment during the afternoon and occu
pied the Turkish batteries on the Sak
ni and Elas hills, capturing all the
guns and 110 artillerymen. Then the
Greek battalions gradually deployed
onto the plain in front of the city it
self. . " ' - - ' - '. -.'With
all the defending batteries in
the hands of the Greeks and the Hel
lenic soldiers at the gates of Janina.
Essaad Pash, the Turkish command
er, sent messengers under a flag' of
truce to Crown Prince 'ConstanUne of
Greece, announcing the surrender of
the city and. all the troops under his
command. - -J ..- ; " '.-Z
- Vienna, . Austria, , March 8. The
Turkish eriser Hamidieh sank three
Greek transports loaded with Servian
troopson the way to Scutari, accord
ing to a Constantinople dispatch to
the Neue Freie Presse Thursday.
SENATE CONFIRMS MARBLE
Interstate . Cbmmsrce . Commission
Now Has Its Full ; Membership
With Clark Chairman.
Washington. March . 8. The - nom
ination' of - John H. " Marble to be a
member of the Interstate -. commerce
commission was favorably reported
to the 'senate Friday by a unanimous
vote ; of .; the committee. ; He ; was'
promptly confirmed "and; that admin
istrative body again will have a full
membership. Edgar ,B. Clark, nom
inated to succeed himself - and r con
firmed, was named as chairman of
the commission to succeed. JPtanklln
K. Lane, who went into -the new cab
inet. - ": '. "'' ":".,'.''- '" " "'"'
Mrs. Letter Is Burlsd.-
Waahlngton, March 10. The funeral
of . Mrs. Levi Z. Letter took place at
2 p. m. Saturday from Lelter Castle;
iMipont circle. -Rev. Roland - Cotton
Smith ..of. SL Johns'church officiated.
'Many 'diplomats attended.'
WAY TO THE MEXICAN
BARS OFFICE SEEKER
PRESIDENT .WILSON SAYS ONLY
- THOSE HIE INVITES CAN TAKE
i UP HIS TIME.
STARTS V0RK WITH A RUSH
Democrats n Senate and Houte Begin-Changes
at Once and Bustle of
New Administration Startles the
Old Timers.
Washiagtoo, 'March 7. President
Wilson had notified air office seekers
that he did rot intend talking to them
before the White House clock struck
ten Wednesday morning. Inside of
the next hour he had held and re
ceived and accepted the res5gnation
of the old cabinet, held a meeting of
the new cabinet, made two Important
appointments to the interstate com
merce commission and dictated half a
dozen letters. '
The Interstate commissioners named
were Edgar C. Clark of Iowa, to" suc
ceed blmself, and John H. Marble,
secretary of the commission, to suc
ceed Franklin K. Lane,' who went into
the eabinet.
Thus' was inaugurated the most
sweeping change of administration
within the memory of the oldest in
habitant7 in Washington, a change
that ia complete in both legislative
and executive branches of the govern
ment. - - " . -. y
Not to be outdone by the swift dis
patch of business at the White House,
the Democrats took over the control
oif the senate by '"electing "'. iohn V.
Kern majority leader, while the. house
Democrats in . caucus made sure the
re-election of Speaker Clark and Lead
er Underwood and gave, to A. Mitch
ell Palmer the caucus chairmanship
that will enable him to represent the
administration on -the. floor. ;
." Meanwhile the" national committee
had met and made plana for. continu
ing in control of the government four
years from now. ; Altogether . It ' was
a ,day of action .such "as took away
the breath of the slow-going .Republic
cans. . . .-. ' - - - '
' Members of the cabinet arrived
w bile President Wilson . was ; talking
with v Mr.- Crane. Josephus Daniels,
the new secretary of the navy, was
fl rst, and he was followed by Llndley
M. Garrison, the Jiew secretary" of
war; William G. Wilson, the first sec
retary of. labor; William Jennings
Bryan, secretary of state; Franklin
K. Lane, . who' leaves the chairman
ship' of the interstate commerce com
mission to become secretary i of the
interior ;" David F.-"Houston, chancel
lor" of Washmgton'MinlversSty, SL
Louis, who becomes secretary of agrir
culture'; Albert . S. Burlesoa, who
gives up his place in the bouue 4q be
postmaster, general; '-William ;B. - Red
field, anoUiei:. member cf cangresa,
who becomes secretary cf commerce,
and James G; McReynolds,'''iiUorney
rgenfnri. William G. McAdoo, the newn
secretary of the treasury, was last.
"Wabash' Song' Up .to Qovsrnor.
- -IndlanapoUa. v.Ind-, March " 'On
the Hants of-the Wabasnrwni be,In
dlaaa'a official song if a fcili piisse"3T)y
the hoWse-' and senate i signed by Gov-erst'-Ralstou'.
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BORDER
OUSTER SUIT'lS FILED
TEXAS SEEKS-TO DRIVE STAND
. W ARD OIL OUT OF STATE.
Attorney General Asks Penalties To
taling $28,025,000 and Dissolution
of Alleged Trust.
Greenville,' Tex., March : 7. Suit
seeking to ' oust the Standard Oil
company and its subsidiaries from the
state was filed on Wednesday In the
Eighth district court against four com
panies and twenty-five individuals by
Attorney General Looney.
The petition asks for . penalties ' to
taling 128,025,000. foreclosure on cer
taiA properties of the corporations to
make certain of payment of the fines,
a dissolution of the alleged trust and
Injunction. "
The penalties sought are the
largest ever asked in a single suit in
the country. Violation of the Texas
anti-trust laws is given as cause for
the action. The defendant com
panies are the Standard Oil company
of New Jersey, Standard Oil company
of New York, Magnolia Petroleum
company of Texas and Corsicana Pe
troleum company of Texas. The Tex
as concerns are alleged in the petition
to be but branches of the two eastern
oil companies. -
The individual defendants are Court
ney Marshall and George C. Greer,
Beaumont; John Sealy and R. Waver
ly Smith, Galveston; E. R. Brown, W..
C. Proctor. Charles HalIyn. S. P.
Whitehall, James M. Garrety, B. E.
Plumley, and D. C Stewart, Corsica
na; A. C. Cobb and W. P. Gage, Fort
Worth; J. Q. Taber, Paris; A. C.
Ebie. Dallas; ,C. N. Payne. Tltusville,
Pa.; H. C. Folger, Jr., J. C. Folger, J.
D. Archbold of New York City; O. C.
Edwards, Norwalk. Mass.; John D.
Rockefeller, Howard ' Payne. Charles
W Harkness, C. : Mr. Pratt and L. C.
Ledyard, New York. "
MONOPOLY CHARGE IS DENIED
James Gayley Testifies in Suit Alleg:
ing U. S. Steel Corporation Is
Illegal Combine.
New. York,. March 8. -Denial of. any
intent on the part of the United States
Steel corporation to secure a' monop
oly of. iron ore was voiced by James
Gayley, formerly vice-pronident of the
corporation, on the witness stand in
the government's suit to dissolve the
so-called trusL .
The question of monopoly never en
tered my head," Mr. Gayley ; testified.
"My whole ambition, was to see that
the corporation had a supply, of ore
for a long term of years ai a matter of
seprotection.',t-v ' ' "
The witness added that, monopoliza
tion was never a "subject of discussion
among the men with whom he was as
sociated.
" Pay of Telegraphers Increased.
: Beaton, March 8. Increases . in
'wages for the telegraph operators,
towermen and swltchtenders on three
of U9 "seven divisions of the New
York, New Haven and. Hartford rail
road h&ve 'been agreed on by a con
ference committee . composed of offi
cers of. the road and of the Order, of
Railroad Telegraphers. "The amount
of the. acrease,ha not been given out.
EXPLOSION KILLS 50
ONE HUNDRED INJURED WHEN
- SHIP LOADING DYNAMITE IS
BLOWN TO ATOMS.
U. S. COLLIER JASON WRECKED
Many Other Crafts Destroyed - and
Damaged by Terrific Blast In BaltK
more Harbor Surrounding Coun
try Shaken by Awful Shock.
Baltimore. Md March 10. Fifty
lives were lost and 100 were Injured
Friday when nearly 350 tons of dyna
mite which had been loaded Into the
hold of the British steamer " Alum
Chine, at anchor in the Patapaco
river near Hawkins Pointy exploded.
The property damage will amount to
fully 13,000,000.
The explosive had been loaded into
the vessel to be taken to Panama to
be used In the construction of the
canal.' A fire of unknown origin
broke out on the vessel while the last
of the explosive was being loaded.
It spread with lightning rapidity to
the dynamite and when the explosion
occurred the vessel was blown Into "
bits and sent hurling in all directions
through the air.
Bits of the steel sides of the Alum
Chine were blown with" such force
that they tore their, way through' the
armored sides of the collier Jason
nearly a mile away, killing four men
and injuring ten others aboard the
collier. The tug Atlantic of the At
lantic Transport company caught fire
while rescuing some of those on the
ill-fated ship and was sunk. Other
damage was caused by the breaking
of glass and Wood work in dwellings
as far S3 several miles from the- scene.
The greatest damage a6ide from the
absolute loss of the Alum Chine was
to the collier Jason. This giant of
its type had just been completed at
the Maryland Steel works and was at
anchor ready to start on its trial
trip. Its sides were battered by fly
ing steel and it appeared to have been
in a battle. Its interior was demol
ished. Thirteen bodies are at the morgue
and nine have been identified.
More than fifty of the injured were
brought in to Brown's wharf and Spar
row's Point and taken to the hospitals
of the' city.
The shock was felt as far away as
Reading, Pa , 100 miles from Balti
more. It was recorded also at Atlan
tic City. People at first thought an
earthquake had occurred. A school
house at Sparrow's Point, several mile
from the scene of the' explosion, was
partly destroyed and several children
were hurt. Baltimore itself was sha
ken as if by a powerful trembling of
the earth, and tall buildings in the
center of the city rocked perceptible.
Scores of vessels hurried to the
scene of the disaster to render what
aid they could. The explosion was so
powerful that pieces of steel weighing
fifty- pounds were hurled through the
air for a distance of four miles. Cases
of dynamite were thrown for a great
distance from the Chine and exploded
a3 they fell, adding to the damage and
destruction.
FLASHES
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Indianapolis, March 6. Local op
tion elections were held in four In
diana cities Tuesday and In all the
anti-saloon forces were victors. -In
Wabash the contest was ckBerthe
"drys" winning by only 13 majority.
Erie, Pa., March 8. Commodore
Perry's " old flagship, tha Niagara,
which for almost" century has rested
at the bottom of Misery bay, an arm
of Lake Erie, was raised darln'g a
blinding snowstorm Thursday.
San Francisco, March 7. -Col. H. C.
Schumm faces court-martial for bring
ing Marie Von Klein of Chicago, up
front Manila on a United States trans
port as a nurse. She wanted ": to be
near her fiancee, Lieut, AJ' B. Miller,
and the colonel let her come and vio
lated regulations by doing so.
Berlin, March 7. The total number
of dead as the result of the ramming
of torpedo boat destroyer S178 . y
the Yorck off 1 Heligoland was .tfvea
ofLJally as 71, Including two officers .
and 69 men. It Is stated by tha admir
alty that most of these did not die o!
drowning, bat-t "were froaen to death
while clinging to loose spars after
their vessel had sunk.
Cleveland, O.. March JL The 48 ves
sels comprising the ten Seels of the -Gilchrist
Transportation company, op
erating on the great lakes, were sold
at auction by Receiver S. P. Shane a
the federal court here. Tha sale net-:
ted 83,500,000. Stockholders will re
lize nothing, as the claims against tfc
company exceed tha proceeds of th
auction. -. Bankers holding naorisas ,
bid in.icbat of tire vesesla : &t iv
thirds valuation ' - " ' -r -
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